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Komodo 5.2 Documentation

The Abbreviations function lets you quickly insert code snippets by entering their name in the editor
buffer followed by Ctrl+T. Several useful default
snippets are included in Komodo. Additional ones can be added
easily.

Komodo looks for abbreviations in a special folder in projects and
toolboxes called Abbreviations. Within the Abbreviations folder are
language specific sub-folders, and a General sub-folder for global
snippets.

To insert a snippet using Abbreviations, enter the name of the
snippet in the editor buffer, then enter Ctrl+T
(Meta+T on OS X). Komodo searches for a snippet matching the word to
the left of the cursor in Abbreviations folders, and replaces the word
with the contents of the snippet if it finds one.

For example, to insert the divblock snippet in an HTML
file, type:

divblock|

Enter Ctrl+T to insert the snippet:

<div id="default">
</div>

Many of the default snippets in Komodo use Tab Stops (highlighted above) to make
populating the snippet with your content even quicker. After inserting
the snippet, the first tab stop is selected, just start typing to
insert text in place of the marker. Use the Tab key
to cycle through subsequent markers.

Komodo checks the language-specific sub-directory and the General
sub-directory in each of these places. For example, if you are editing
a Python module, these snippet directories will be checked in this
order:

Abbreviations/Python folders in:

Current Project

Toolbox

Shared Toolbox

Abbreviations/General folders in:

Current Project

Toolbox

Shared Toolbox

In a multi-language buffer, both the language type of the file and
the language type at the current cursor position are included. For
example, in a JavaScript block inside a PHP file, the following search
order would be used:

Abbreviations/JavaScript folders in:

Current Project

Toolbox

Shared Toolbox

Abbreviations/PHP folders in:

Current Project

Toolbox

Shared Toolbox

Abbreviations/General folders in:

Current Project

Toolbox

Shared Toolbox

This allows you to have snippets with the same names for multiple
languages. For example an abbreviation called 'class' abbreviation
would insert a different snippet in a Perl file than in a PHP
file.